Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step toward miniaturization of particle accelerators by ...

Many advances in structural science since the 1970s were made by probing materials with synchrotron radiation: that is, high energy X-rays generated through accelerating high-energy electrons. The ...

Free-electron lasers (FELs) represent a transformative technology in the generation of coherent X-ray pulses that are both remarkably bright and ultrashort in duration. By utilising relativistic ...

Free electron lasers (FELs) are paramount in a number of fields including atomic and molecular physics, material science as well as biology and medicine. The working principle of FEL is different from ...

A string of recent experiments has moved desktop-scale particle accelerators from theoretical curiosity to working prototypes ...

The US Navy has contracted Boeing to work on a Free Electron Laser, which would provide ships with an ultra-precise weapon capable of striking targets with lethal force, causing minimal nearby damage.

Representation of domain walls within a ferromagnetic layered material. New research shows that when these materials are hit with a free electron laser, magnetic domain walls move much faster than ...

Osaka, Japan – Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step towards miniaturization of particle accelerators by demonstrating ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronizes ultrashort X-ray pulses at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL. This achievement ...

Ice-cold electron beams could pave the way to reducing X-ray free-electron lasers (X-FELs) to a fraction of their current size. Ice-cold electron beams simulated in research at the University of ...

A technological milestone has been achieved at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. For the first time, an infrared Free-Electron Laser (FEL) has been operated in a two ...

Researchers have developed a new technique to view living mammalian cells. The team used a powerful laser, called a soft X-ray free electron laser, to emit ultrafast pulses of illumination at the ...